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Course Spotlight Series: Programming for Everybody (Python) starts on June 1, led by Professor Charles Severance (“Dr. Chuck”) of the University of Michigan. This article, based on an interview with the instructor, was written by Charlie Chung of Class Central. |
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Dr. Chuck is a big advocate for digital literacy and thinks everyone should learn basic programming and understand the history of the internet. This will give people to have the tools to understand a wide range of technologies and value our digital freedoms. And, more concretely, being technologically literate is important for jobs: “I believe that the number of middle class jobs that don’t have any aspect of technology is going to go to zero.” So it is Dr. Chuck’s mission to do his part to help teach as many people as possible (ideally everybody) about programming. “We are reaching people who have always felt that they are shut out of the technology economy,” he says. After all, the internet was not designed to be a technological marvel, it was meant to be a way for people to communicate with each other. Read the full version of this article on Class Central’s blog. |
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